Dynamics of government decision-making process on the policy level towards Thai State owned enterprises (SOEs)
Keywords:
Organizational decision-making process, State owned enterprises (SOEs), satisfying model, incremental model, garbage-can model, the garbage-can model in political institutions as according to Kingdon‟s theory, Thai administrative culture, the politics of despotic paternalismAbstract
This research study on the government decision-making process on the policy level towards Thai State owned
enterprises (SOE) offers some ideas that may provide a useful interpretation of the government decision
making process on the policy level of public administration. The researcher aims to propose a better
understanding of government policy formulation and implementation towards Thai SOE through two case
studies. The findings of the study support the analytical framework that in the stage of agenda setting, the
garbage-can model is the decision-making model that helps explain the processes of agenda setting, due to
the variety of participants that influence the decision-making processes. However, the incremental model is
more explanatory in the following stage. Once the policy is decided and implemented, policies are formulated
and the day-to-day operational decisions are made incrementally by the ministry’s high-ranking officials and
the SOE management. Moreover, the researcher found that government policies towards these two SOEs
were, very often, on and off, and the government took about three to four decades with several governments
to push the policies to be implemented and accomplished.
